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so naturally beautiful disfigured in a vain search for 
remunerative slate, are favourite sites. 
Mr. Kermode states that on the northern coast, where 
there are no rocks, it selects ledges on the sand and clay 
cliffs. Certain spots are frequented yearly, for the Kestrel 
is as true as the Peregrine to its breeding site, and a gully 
in Onchan familiar to the writer harboured regularly a pair 
of ‘Greybacks, a pair of Kestrels, and a pair of Robins. 
This Hawk has also its inland nesting places on steep 
rocky scarps where the upland breaks into the glen, as for 
instance those of Laxey and Sulby, but there is no record 
of its using trees for breeding purposes in Man. ‘Though 
doubtless more dispersed in winter than in summer, the 
Kestrel may be seen at any time of the year in its favourite 
haunts, and rises from its accustomed chasm in January or 
August almost as readily as in May. 
A very widely distributed species, the Kestrel is common 
all round us, and is to some extent migratory, in winter 
becoming scarce, for instance in parts of Leinster and 
Ulster. Its range extends to the outer groups of Scottish 
islands, but in Shetland it is hardly common. 
[PANDION HALIAETUS (Linn.). OSPREY. 
According to the late Mr. Jeffcott, there was a fine 
specimen in the collection of Mr. Wallace, which the latter 
gentleman believed to have been killed in the island. 
Nesting in Galloway until about 1860, and possibly earlier 
in Lakeland, and a straggler to Ireland, the occurrence of 
the species in Man is not unlikely, but the evidence is 
insufficient. ] 
